Music has always had a direct influence on lifestyle, which has, in turn, has a direct influence on fashion. Here is Rockabilly style, the ultimate combination of tradition, music and fashion.
Rockabilly, as a form of music, grew out of a combination of urban rhythm and blues, western-style boogie and gritty hillbilly traditions. Rockabilly clothing encompassed all of these lifestyles, adopting a sleek, urban, post-World War II debonair look combined with the rural ruggedness of country dress.
The style saw a downtime in the 1960s when people were too busy trying to expand their minds and grow their hair to actually get down with solid rock styles. When punk music gained foot in the mid-70s, it was rockabilly fashion that was in the forefront. Legions of punks raided their parent’s closets to find the former generation’s garb with which they tore apart and perverted, creating the basis for the first punk fashions.
When the Ramones released their first album, they immediately adopted an image that was timeless, cool and embodied a rock n’ roll lifestyle: Leather jackets, tight jeans, t-shirts, and Chuck Taylor’s made their way back into the scene, where they have stayed tightly put for the past 35 years.
Early punks really understood what rockabilly style was about. Since then, the fashion (and the musical genre) has been largely inseparable from punk rock. The music has evolved since its resurgence, forming subgenres of psychobilly, cowpunk, alt-country and whatever it is that Japanese people call what they do. The fashion has spread accordingly.
In recent years, rockabilly fashion has found resurgence in popularity. Musicians such as Justin Townes Earle have adopted a minimalist and rootsy approach to the style; Nick 13 of Tiger Army has been donning the psychobilly tats and pompadour as Social Distortion, with its greaser front man Mike Ness, have been sticking to their rockabilly influences in appearance and sound. There’s a ton of great options for how to express your rockabilly roots. The store at tensionwire.com is an excellent place to start.
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